Farming? I'm making a killing with my fairytale vegetables!

Chapter 209 Rice Seeds

As soon as Xia Shiyu walked in, she found a lot of people gathered around the seed shop, picking out seeds.

Looking at the dazzling array of seeds, she went straight to the counter and asked, "Hello, I'm here to buy seeds. Could you tell me about them?"

The shop assistant glanced at her and said, "Of course, sir. What are your requirements?"

Xia Shiyu glanced at them and said, "I want high-yield, delicious rice seeds, at a reasonable price."

"Okay, what are your requirements for the appearance? We have newly developed five-colored rice, crystal clear rice, and fruit rice."

Xia Shiyu listened to these introductions and found them interesting, but he knew they definitely couldn't be sold in the real world.

She said, "All I need are some ordinary-looking, ordinary-tasting, but delicious ones."

"Oh, you mean Benzhen Rice, right? Then I recommend this one to you, Benzhen Rice Variety No. 3. It has the most original rice taste. The appearance and yield are relatively primitive, but the taste of each variety has been adjusted and it tastes very good."

As Xia Shiyu watched the shop assistant talk, he quickly took out a small bowl of rice and handed it to her, indicating that she could try it.

"You can taste the specific flavor."

Xia Shiyu was surprised by the thoughtful service, and even got to eat ripe rice.

She picked up a pair of chopsticks, gently picked up a few grains of rice, and slowly savored them. The rich flavor of the new rice, with its subtle sweetness, was exceptionally satisfying.

It tastes almost the same as the large rice paddies in the square earlier.

Xia Shiyu nodded, "Okay, I'll take this one. How much does it cost?"

"The price is 15 rice coins per kilogram of rice seeds. How much do you need?"

"Rice coins!" Xia Shiyu realized a problem; the corn coins he had had hadn't been converted.

She asked somewhat embarrassedly, "Where do you exchange other currencies here? I only have corn coins on me right now."

The shop assistant looked at the money bag she took out and said, "It's okay. The exchange rate between corn coins and our currency is 1 to 1. You can exchange them here, but we will charge you a handling fee of one corn coin."

"Oh, that's good." Xia Shiyu breathed a sigh of relief. Thankfully, she didn't need to run around anymore; time was really tight.

"Then please exchange 45 coins for me."

Xia Shiyu earned a total of 100 corn coins from her part-time job. After deducting bus and train fares, she now has 73 left.

She needed to set aside the rest for the train fare. If she exchanged 45 coins, she could buy three catties of rice seeds. Three catties of rice seeds would be more than enough for her own family to eat, and she could even sell some of them, since they still had a lot of leftover rice from last year in their granary.

"Okay, then I'll charge you 46 corn coins."

After the shop assistant collected the money, he packaged the seeds and handed them to Xia Shiyu.

Xia Shiyu took the rice and walked out of the shop before remembering something. She then asked the system, "Can these rice grains be saved for planting?"

"The host has been found to have purchased ordinary seeds that do not have the ability to be preserved. If the host wants to preserve seeds, he/she can only do so by purchasing special seeds."

"Okay," Xia Shiyu understood the logic. After all, such delicious and high-yield seeds only cost 15 yuan per kilogram. If they could be saved for future generations, the shop wouldn't be able to make much money. Although most of the facilities and crops in the fairy tale world are public facilities, there are still certain requirements for outsiders.

However, Xia Shiyu can't afford special seeds right now. She just glanced at them and found that even a single special seed costs at least 1000. She doesn't have that much time to work.

Anyway, she has enough seeds now to spend.

Now that he realized he didn't have much time left, Xia Shiyu wandered around aimlessly, making the most of his remaining time before returning to reality.

After she had used up all her time, she successfully returned to reality.

Xia Shiyu was very satisfied with the three catties of rice seeds. He could plant them and harvest a large field of delicious new rice.

Xia Shiyu happily put away the seeds and delivered them to her family the next day under the cover of a courier service.

"Mom, here are three jin of rice seeds. We can start preparing the seedling trays now."

"Oh my, let me see, it really is! Not bad, not bad."

Yu Juan picked up the three jin of seeds with delight, eagerly anticipating the taste of the new rice.

Grandma glanced at it and said, "Then let's start making the seedling trays today."

Xia Lihua nodded, "Okay, I just bought a bunch of them recently."

In the past, raising rice seedlings was very troublesome. Xia Shiyu recalled that it involved many steps. First, you had to find a pile of sand and make it fine enough. Then, you had to spread it evenly in the seedling trays you bought. Next, you had to put the rice into the seedling raising machine, shake it gently with both hands, and then place it down into the plastic trays.

These are all relatively simple. What Xia Shiyu finds most troublesome is that because the rice seeds will inevitably not be sown evenly, it is necessary to use human eyes and tweezers to pick out the extra rice seeds in the gaps and move them to other places where there are fewer seeds.

This process was quite meticulous and troublesome. When Xia Shiyu was little, he would help carry things for more than a day by bending over.

Moreover, she often only works for a short while before stopping, leaving only the adults to use it.

Fortunately, technology is becoming more and more advanced now. You can buy special seedling trays online, put sand in them, scatter the seeds anywhere, and the seedlings will grow to the corresponding positions.

After the seedling trays are prepared, they should be placed in the corresponding area, clearing a complete open space. Then, they should be covered with long strips of bamboo and a thin film, allowing the rice seeds to slowly grow into seedlings in such a warm environment.

When planting corn, the process of breeding corn seedlings also goes through this process.

The process is indeed simple; at most, it just wastes a little time.

However, Xia Shiyu is able to accept this kind of farm work that is not too strenuous, and because it can earn money, she is much more accepting of it than before.

It turns out that many times it really is a matter of money. Xia Shiyu felt tired after doing a lot of work, such as picking corn, picking vegetables, and chopping radishes.

But now, the thought that these vegetables cost over ten yuan per kilogram, and that a single ear of corn costs several yuan, immediately fills me with energy.

Of course, she wouldn't torture herself; when she needed help with something really tiring, she would generously ask for it.

Grandpa straightened up and said, "Alright, press the plastic film down with mud and stones to prevent air from leaking out."

"Okay," Xia Shiyu replied, pressing the soil onto the plastic film in front of him and straightening his back.

Xia Lihua clapped his hands, "Alright, alright, this seedling raising is fine. We can transplant the rice seedlings later when they've grown well."

Grandma said, "When we get back, let's wash our hands and cook."

"it is good"

A group of people were carrying their belongings and walking back.

When Xia Shiyu got home, she saw that her alfalfa had grown a bit more. It really grows fast! She wondered how the tourists who bought it that day fared.